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I mantain a couple of #Android applications both on @fdroidorg and #google #playstore . Now Play Store asks me a document (personal ID card) to verify my account, otherwise it will be closed in October.
I don’t feel I should disclose #personaldata to a giant like Google, so I’m considering migrating my users to #F-Droid. How should I do it? There's already other people doing this? There's any material (e.g. a webpage) to point my users at that explains why and how they should install #fdroid and reinstall my apps from there?
Reason might be simpler then you could possible imagine, in my humble subjective opinion: Google PlayStore is explicitly for tracking the user and with in-app purchases to squeeze every little money out of there is.
Your own App don't do anything of the above mentioned malicious capitalism and anti user friendly behavior. 😉
According to a study by @kasnder (author of the app "Tracker Control")
"… 85% of apps
from 2017 could send data to Alphabet/Google, compared to 89% in 2020. Apps
still widely send personal data to tracking companies based in a third-party country
without an ‘adequate’ level of data protection, particularly to those in the US …"
ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b6a8…
This study received the Stefano Rodotà Award btw (see sectorplandls.nl/wordpress/unc…) – congrats to Konrad!
#Android #tracking #privacy #PlayStore
Regulatory technologies for the study of data and platform power in the app economy - ORA - Oxford University Research Archive
Tracking, the large-scale collection of data about user behaviour, is commonplace in mobile apps. While some see tracking as a necessary evil to making apps available at lower prices by showing users personalised advertising and selling their data to…ora.ox.ac.uk
The monocles chat update 1.7.9.5 is available on the Playstore with a Easter special offer 🎉 .
There are several new fixes and features like:
* Initial GIFs picker
* Animated Avatars (up to 100kb and 480px)
* Initial status image preview
* Better image quoting
* Little battery usage reduction
* Updated translations
and much more
play.google.com/store/apps/det…
A good weekend to everyone!
#playstore #encryption #xmpp #chat #messenger #monocles #monocleschat
monocles chat - Apps on Google Play
monocles chat - The secure and ethical chat clientplay.google.com
Remember that #PlayStore wanted to update/replace a bunch of apps installed from other sources such as #FDroid recently? Well, turns out someone found what triggers it and how it can be avoided, see github.com/jamie-mh/Authentica… for details.
Basically, the reason there was that AABs (the #Android App Bundles uploaded to Play) had a higher versionCode than the APKs distributed by the other sources. Still does not explain why Google ignored the "installer" property, though.
App installed from FDroid wants to update in Play Store · Issue #1054 · jamie-mh/AuthenticatorPro
Describe the bug I have v 1.23.0 installed through FDroid (IzzyOnDroid) and since this morning Google Play Store is trying to auto-update the app but fails obviously. To Reproduce Install the app f...GitHub
F-Droid: Mehr App-Stores!
kaffeeringe.de/2022/11/28/mehr…
#Appstore #fdroid #playstore #google
F-Droid: Mehr App-Stores!
In China gibt es für Smartphones fünf bis zehn App-​Stores – und keiner davon ist marktbeherrschend. Die meisten Chinesen haben mehrere installiert.Steffen Voß (kaffeeringe.de)